HRC Honda rider Luca Marini is enjoying a moment of comfort after a serious accident during practice for the Suzuka 8 Hours on May 28, 2025. Reunited with his wife Marta Vincenzi and their newborn daughter Angelina Luce in Tokyo, the Italian rider, who suffered multiple injuries, is making progress in his recovery, supported by his family and the Japanese medical team. Here's an update on his situation and the outlook for his return.
Luca marini is going through one of the toughest trials of his career and perhaps even of his life. Victim of a serious accident during the tests for the 8 Hours of SuzukaThe Italian driver suffered multiple fractures, a dislocated hip, and a collapsed lung. The clinical picture was alarming and required urgent treatment in Japan.
But in the face of adversity, emotion took over. After several days of hospitalization and a transfer to a specialized clinic in Tokyo, Marini experienced a moment suspended in time: the reunion with his wife Marta Vincenzi and their newborn daughter, Angelina Luce. A simple Instagram story, three intertwined hands, and it said it all. Love, pain, hope, rebirth. Perhaps it was in this silent gesture that the champion drew the strength to continue the fight.
« They are the ones who give me the energy to get back up ", he would have confided Marini privately to a close member of the paddock.
Luca Marini, between pain and rebirth: the reunion of a father, a pilot, a man
The timing of his return to the track remains unclear. Some are talking about a repatriation to Italy by the end of the week, others are talking about ten days depending on how his condition develops. What is certain is that Luca Marini doesn't want to rush things. His health comes first, and this ordeal already seems to have strengthened his bonds with his loved ones like never before.
A return to MotoGP is obviously considered, but it will be progressive, thoughtful, humanly charged. Because for Luca marini, this fall was not only a hindrance to his season: it was an existential shock, a reminder of what really matters.
The paddock waits. The fans cheer. And Luca, between pain and tenderness, slowly makes his way back. HRC leaves its RC213V free and will only participate with Joan Mir at the GP of Aragon this weekend. Honda has not called up any of its three test drivers (Aleix Espargaró, Takaaki Nakagami and Stefan Bradl) for the eighth round of the season, even if it means losing points in the constructors' standings, where they are chasing Ducati. Luca Marini is absent from the official list, just like George Martin, thatAprilia will replace by Lorenzo Savadori.
